Irina Nakhova
Irina Nakhova works concurrently with painting, with creating structured environments from several superimposed planes, and with installations which, in their most vivid form, employ painting, digital printing, sculpture and interactive audio and video. Her works often create and define space using formal means and materials, achieving this with biting wit and a historical and social perspective. She seeks to surprise viewers, to make something happen they do not expect. Her intentions are fulfilled when she introduces unpredictability, activates the spectator, and provokes thought.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions:
2020 Wall, pop/off/art gallery, Moscow.
2019 Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (US).
2017 Battle of the Invalids, pop/off/art gallery, Moscow.
2016 Gaze, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Irina Nakhova: Presence, Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York, NY (US).
2015 Green Pavilion, Representing Russia at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT).
Selected group exhibitions:
2024 Painting to Scale! Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
2023 The Brodsky Center at Rutgers University: Three Decades, 1986-2017, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
2022 Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn (EE). De Profundis,Golubitsky Art Foundation. May–October, Golubitskoe (RU).
2020 Not Forever 1968–1985, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
2019 THERE IS A BEGINNING IN THE END. The Secret Tintoretto Fraternity, Chiesa San Fantin, Venice.
2018 Performer and Participant, Tate Modern, London.
Publications
Irina Nakhova: Museum on the Edge, Jane A. Sharp and Julia Tulovsky, Zimmerili Museum and Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ (US), 2019.
Irina Nakhova. The Green Pavilion, Margarita Tupitsyn, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, 2015.
Rooms, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Maier, Moscow, 2011.
Irina Nakhova: Works 1973–2004, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Salzburg (AT), 2004.
